Topics for study may include: epic, historiography, satire, oratory, personal poetry, art, architecture, Roman philosophy and religion, early imperial society, Medieval Latin; authors may include Catullus, Virgil, Ovid, Martial, Cicero, Caesar, Livy, and Pliny the Younger. In studying the chosen text (or collection of texts) and its political, social, and literary context, students continue their study of the Latin language. In Semester 2 2009 the course will be 'The epistolary style: letter-writing in the Roman world (Cicero, Seneca, Pliny)'.

• by the end of semester students will have increased their ability to read Latin with pleasure and understanding: some texts at sight, any texts with the aid of dictionaries, grammars, translations, and textual notes.
  
• they will have become acquainted with three leading figures in Rome, and the worlds they lived in, through their letters.
  
• students will have reviewed and extended their understanding of the grammatical constructions of Latin and their Latin vocabulary.

Exercises (20%), 2,000-3,000 word essay (25%), mid-semester test (15%) and final examination (40%).

Three hours in class per week for 39 hours

LATN2101 Intermediate Latin, or HSC level Latin, or permission of Convener.